Re: [UDD] Proposed changes: When to drop inclusion of Lenny; avoid importing of just imported data

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 18/02/12 at 15:14 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do not want to push against Lenny data inside UDD.  I just want to
> bring up the topic because I realised that the UDD hosting machine is
> not as powerfull as sometimes needed and we are starting to include more
> derivatives than just Ubuntu.  So it might make sense to consider droping
> Lenny data after having dropped security support for this release.

I agree.

> When thinking about Lenny and stable I was wondering if we could reduce
> the work load of importing data when checking whether an import is really
> necessary.  I did so for the ddtp importer which maintains a list of
> sha1 sums of the files which should be imported.  If the checksum of a
> file did not changed the file to import is skipped.  I guess the UDD
> importer could profit from a similar approach.
> 
> What do you think?

I also agree, but don't have time to work on it currently. :)

Lucas